Senator Conrad, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said yesterday that reconciliation can only be used if the House passes the Senate bill first. As Sen. Conrad declared, “I don’t know of any...

This video (H/T Drudge Report) captures an important piece of recent history, when the GOP controlled the White House and the Senate. The Democrats repeatedly attacked the Republicans for attempting the “nuclear option.” Senator...

Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan. The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation,...

The ObamaCare roll out has run right into, well, itself. From the true-believer-ObamaCare-cheerleader-a-go-go, Jonathan Cohn: “Apparently unresolved, still, is the question of which House votes first. And that’s no small thing. “But the bigger...

Reason number infinite why ObamaCare will fail: who is going to vote for $2.5 Trillion in new spending? Peggy Noonan outlines the new political reality: “People are freshly aware and concerned about the real-world...

The Hill reports: “In a brutal assessment of the Democratically authored healthcare reform bills pending in Congress and the party’s approach to healthcare, more than half of the respondents to a new Zogby International-University...

AOL (America On Line) of all places has an excellent article that clearly lays out the bottom line of American politics, under normal circumstances: citing Sean Trende, Americans like divided — gridlocked — government....

No legislation will be signed as a result of the White House health care meeting. Congress is politically radioactive. ObamaCare is hated. And never has a Speaker’s low approval rating created male-trance-like-obedience to injure...

Bill Murchinson of the Creators Syndicate has nailed it, courtesy of RealClearPolitics: “In an interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama announced a Feb. 25 half-day “bipartisan health care summit” that he said would...

The Trillion Dollar President told flagging Dems at their Party pow-wow yesterday in D.C. that, as the LA Times reports, “trimming goals and postponing hard choices are the wrong approach,” and that “he...

This a classic case of attempted big-man-chest-beating, that comes off as kinda-whine-y — as in, do you want some cheese with that whine? — when Shrum attempts to rally defeated, wounded and shell-shocked troops....